I can't figure out exactly where fingers are supposed to go. You need a small screen portion devoted to showing the chord charts that apply so that when you announce a particular chord at a marticular moment the image pops up on the screen.

Instructor goes to fast to a capo. Ir one learns an Em, or a C, or whatever note without a capo, then puts a capo on the third fret it changes the note even though you're using a C shape, etc. This is not very well explained.

Great stuff, Randall. I'm by no means a beginner, but since I self taught, i'm coming back to start from scratch. I love your teaching style, and I feel that you have a lot of great info for our gain. Thanks for taking time out of your day to do this!

Having rushed out to buy a capo, got through song one, but need telling exactly what fret and what string each finger goes on, to progress easier in song two. I have to keep stopping and going back to study the finger positions. Going to try another beginner lesson and come back later.

Having rushed out to buy a capo, got through song one, but need telling exactly what fret and what string each finger goes on, to progress easier in song two. I have to keep stopping and going back to study the finger positions. Going to try another beginner lesson and come back later.

Hello! Great stuff and I'm learning pretty quickly. I have to ask, though, is it possible to get a better visual as to where your fingers are actually going? During the lesson it's my only point of reference, and I don't know the chords yet. It help us associate names with location if the visual is there when you name them out. Thanks!

Thanks everybody - and sorry I threw the capo at you so quickly! I wish I could say what song - but so many are so similar. If you can play this one, then you're on your way to playing a bunch of different ones.

Alright, I have a big problem here. You have fantastic pictures, etc. however what you need is a small TAB or something showing where your fingers go! When you have a picture of your fingers on the frets, you really can't tell where they are. It looks like big fingers that could be on one or more strings. If I forget the placement, I have to go back to the beginning. A simple little finger placement tab would be a tremendous help. Please remember, some of us are just starting out. Please HELP!! Thanks

Me too. I get that there's copyright issues, but if anyone could tell me what top 40 song this "reminds them of" it would give me a melody to humm while I play. By the way, excellent lesson set Randall, exactly the type of thing I was looking for.

Randall continues his extensive coverage of beginner right-hand techniques with a lesson on fingerpicking.

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About Randall WilliamsView Full Biography
He felt that classical music lacked the inclusiveness of folk music, and that the inevitable division between performer and audience was unbearable. And so Randall returned to the world of traveling with his guitar, writing songs in train stations and sleeping on couches, then singing and playing on street corners, cafï, and pubs. For a time he lived aboard a 20' sailboat that he bought for $800, teaching himself how to sail by single-handing through the Baltic and North Seas with his guitar sleeping in the berth beside him at night. He wrote a book about the trip, which begins with the story of almost getting squashed by a tanker before dawn one morning in the North Sea.

He moved to North Africa, then set off across the Sahara by hitching with locals - bouncing through a minefield on the way that made his mother have bad dreams. He loved the adventure, but he missed the music.

In 2005, Randall returned stateside to scrounge up a career as a performing songwriter, hoping it wasn't too late. So far, it hasn't been. As the "Partial Capo Guy," Randall has written two books for Hal Leonard, recorded a DVD for Kyser Musical Products, and given workshops at some of the biggest festivals in United States. As a performer, Randall has been a finalist in the Founder's Title and Mid-Atlantic Song Contests, A regional finalist at Kerrville, a showcase artist at Northeast and Midwest Folk Alliance, and at the International Folk Alliance in Memphis, and an Audience Favorite at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. His 2007 live release, "One Night in Louisiana" made a respectable dent in the folk DJ charts (One single, "Lebanon," was #8 in May,) and he's generally a nice guy to have around, capos or not.

Randall is as much at home in a Bangkok slum or a Senegalese village, at the Kennedy Center in D.C. or the Fine Arts Palace in Brussels sandwiched between a twitchy orchestra and a full house, or shoeless on the floor of your living room. Randall has sung in a dozen languages in over 35 countries.

Lynne Andrews: "When Randall left the confines of classical music largely behind, they lost a great talent, but the world gained a good friend - a friend who will tell its stories with grace, compassion, humility and humor."

Randall began playing guitar seriously in 1988, and played his first open mic one year later. Randall kept playing and learning more and more. Randall began teaching guitar in 1992, while studying musical composition, analysis, and performance. Randall got his undergraduate music degree in 1996, then studied flamenco for about a year (1997) before beginning studies at the royal conservatory of music in mons, belgium.

From 1998 to 2001, Randall studied voice, analysis, and harmony at the conservatory, with classical guitar lessons on the side for about 6 months. Randall's undergraduate study and the conservatory courses added a degree of musical structure to his improvisational ability, and gave him a strong music theory base. He recieved the premier prix for concert singing from the conservatory in 2001.

Randall's most recent discoveries: how to build a structure for creating chords in open tunings, and learning how to structure placement of partial capos in standard and alternate tunings.

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